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Chapter 5: Lacey's Lullaby

Katie had started to help with Lacey a lot more now, Kendall supposed that it was because of that girls day in she'd had with Jo a couple of weeks ago, and Kendall couldn't help it, but he felt like everyone in the house got to spend more time with his baby than he did. Kendall was sitting alone in his room, his guitar perched on his knee, and strumming quietly; Gustavo had asked that he come up with a guitar line for the new song he'd written: Cover Girl, but Kendall couldn't come up with anything.

He paused in his random strumming and heard a faint crying: Lacey must have been giving her mother trouble again. Usually she was pretty quiet and hardly cried, as long as the right person was taking care of her; if she was hungry, Jo was the only one who could feed her, Logan could dress her and change her diaper (much to his disgust), James could make her laugh if she was fussy, Katie could get her to play with her, and Carlos was the one who could bathe her without soaking the entire bathroom, and Kendall felt useless. There was nothing he could to for Lacey; every time she was in his arms, she would just scream and writhe until he gave her to someone else. Even at almost a year old, she still didn't recognize her father, and he would just scream until her beloved mother rescued her.

"She's just a mommy's girl," Jo would say when Kendall confessed this to her.

"But what about the others? She loves them, too!" Kendall complained.

"She loves you, too, Kendall, she just doesn't know it," Jo had reassured him, and Kendall knew she was right; Lacey was only a baby, she was just recognizing smiles and voices, and it didn't help that every time Kendall saw her, he teared up. He sighed, forgetting about Lacey and trying to focus on the song, but the crying became louder, and Kendall looked up to see that Jo had brought Lacey in to see him.

"She won't sleep," Jo explained, bouncing Lacey in her arms as the baby cried "can you try to calm her down?" Kendall shrugged, setting aside his guitar,

"I'll give it a shot," he held out his arms for Lacey as Jo breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hey, baby," Kendall smiled down at her as she sobbed, beating her little fists as she bawled. "Shh, my little miracle, it's bed time for you, you gotta sleep. Please, for your daddy?"

Lacey seemed to show no signs of listening to Kendall, and he sighed, "Well, if you're not gonna sleep, then just cry quietly," he said, setting her in her crib and picking up his guitar "Daddy's gotta work," Lacey continued to scream as Kendall strummed, and he couldn't keep his focus, he had to stop her crying, he couldn't stand to see his little miracle crying like this. Kendall tried one more time to come up with a melody as he picked up the lyric sheet, and Lacey continued to cry.

"Aw, come on, baby girl, please smile for me," Kendall looked down at the lyrics sheet in his hands "And when I see your face, I try a thousand ways," Kendall sang, strumming his guitar and watching as Lacey's screams slowly died down into sobs, and then into whimpers "I would do anything to make you smile," he continued to strum, and he smiled as Lacey's eyes began to droop, and she gave an almighty yawn as she curled up in her crib and fell asleep, and Kendall continued to strum, relaxed, as he watched his daughter sleep; he'd come up with the perfect melody for Cover Girl, and he wasn't a useless father after all.

A/N: Longer? Probably not. Cute? Not really. Do I like this chapter? no! Will I try harder next time? You bet I will! Do I apologize? Profusely. Will you forgive me?